Subj : Re: Getting email
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Gryphon
Date : Sun Jul 03 2005 10:44 pm

On 07-03-05, Angus Mcleod said...
 
AM>   Re: Re: Getting email
AM>   By: Gryphon to Angus Mcleod on Sat Jul 02 2005 22:08:00
AM> 
AM>  > AM> The last two lines don't matter.  Theone beginning with "tcp" tells
AM>  > AM> that something called "master" is listening on the smtp port on 
AM> localhos
AM>  > AM> What is "master"?  Try
AM>  > AM>
AM>  > AM> 	ps -ef | grep 18450
AM>  > AM>
AM>  > AM> to see what the full command lineis for PID 18450.
AM>  > 
AM>  >  /usr/lib/postfix/master
AM> 
AM> Ok, so 'master' is the name of the postfix executable.  Or that part of it
AM> that is running at the time.
AM> 
AM> I don't know Postfix, but perhaps someone else does.
AM> 
AM> Incidentally, you don't have any NetFilter/iptables firewalling in place 
AM> on that box, do you?

No.  Firewalls are turned off.  I let the router do that.  And I have it set
up to do port-forwarding, which works it appears.

Gryphon, aka Darryl Perry
Sysop of Cyberia BBS, Kingwood, TX.
telnet://cyberia.darktech.org

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